Few domesticated animals have flourished as well as rabbits have when reintroduced into the wild—a phenomenon that has often had economic and ecological consequences. And now a team of researchers has ...

Australia is home to roughly 200 million rabbits, which are not native to the country and damage crops and ecosystems. Bettmann / Getty Images In Australia today, European wild rabbits eat through ...

But the rabbit has resisted and its numbers have progressed. In 1901, Australia decided to construct an 1,800 kilometre-long barrier in a bid to stop the furry creatures proliferating to the country's ...

What seemed like an innocent Christmas gift of 24 English rabbits in 1859 would go on to become Australia’s “most devastating biological invasion,” according to a new study by the Proceedings of the ...

A team of tamed ferrets has been making short work of a long-eared problem in the battle against Queenstown's rampant rabbit population. The mustelids are part of an unusual pest control operation run ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Australians have waged a war on invasive wild rabbits for 165 years with poison, firearms, bulldozers and ...